Whittier may refer to:
Places
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Whittier, Alaska
Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about southeast of Anchorage. The city is within the Chugach Census Area, one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Ar ...
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Whittier Airport
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Whittier, California
Whittier () is a city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, part of the Gateway Cities. The city had 87,306 residents as of the 2020 United States census, an increase of 1,975 from the 2010 census figure. Whittier was incorporated in ...
, named for John Greenleaf Whittier
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Whittier College
Whittier College (Whittier Academy (1887–1901)) is a private liberal arts college in Whittier, California. It is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and, as of fall 2022, had approximately 1,300 (undergraduate and graduate) students. It was ...
, a private liberal arts college
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Whittier Law School
Whittier Law School was a law school in Costa Mesa, California founded in 1966. The law school was part of Whittier College, a private institution. After several years being ranked among the poorest-performing law schools in the United States ba ...
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Whittier High School
**Whittier Hills, a local name for the western end of the
Puente Hills
The Puente Hills are a chain of hills, one of the lower Transverse Ranges, in an unincorporated area in eastern Los Angeles County, California, in the United States. The western end of the range is often referred to locally as the Whittier Hills.
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Whittier Narrows
The Whittier Narrows is a narrows or water gap in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States, between the Puente Hills to the east and the Montebello Hills to the west. The gap is located at the southern boundary of t ...
, a water gap between the Puente Hills and the Montebello Hills
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Whittier, Denver
Whittier is a neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, located approximately two miles northeast of downtown Denver. The boundaries of the neighborhood are 23rd Avenue to the south, Martin Luther King Boulevard (32nd) to the north, Downing St. to the west ...
, a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado
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Whittier, Iowa
Whittier is an unincorporated community in Linn County, Iowa, United States. It is located at the intersections of County Roads X20 and E34 south of Waubeek and west of Viola, at 42.092976N, -91.462973W.
History
Whittier was founded as a Quaker ...
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Whittier, Minneapolis, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Whittier, North Carolina
People with the surname
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Charles A. Whittier (1840–1908), American Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
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Edward N. Whittier
Edward Newton Whittier (July 1, 1840 – June 14, 1902) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War. He took temporary command of the 5th Maine Battery when Captain Greenlief T. Stevens was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. Whit ...
(1840–1902), American soldier
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet and abolitionist
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Max Whittier
Max H. Whittier (1867–1925) was an American real estate developer and a pioneer in the early California petroleum industry.
Biography
Max Whittier (born Mericos Hector Whittier), was born to Charles G. Whittier and Ruth Keech, came to California ...
(1867–1928), American real estate developer
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Nancy Whittier
Nancy Whittier is an American sociologist and a professor at Smith College. She has written many books, including ''Feminist Generations'', ''Feminist Frontiers 5'', and ''The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the Stat ...
(born 1966), sociologist
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Pauline Whittier
Pauline "Polly" Whittier (December 9, 1876 – March 3, 1946) was an American golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unl ...
(1876–1946), American golfer
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Sumner G. Whittier (1911–2010), American politician from Massachusetts
Fictional characters
*Whittier Smith, main protagonist of the film ''
Bring It On Again
''Bring It On Again'' is a 2004 American cheerleading comedy film directed by Damon Santostefano and starring Anne Judson-Yager and Bree Turner.
This film is a sequel to '' Bring It On'', but there are no recurring cast members or canonical ref ...
'', played by Anne Judson-Yager
*Pollyanna Whittier, title character of Eleanor H. Porter's novel ''
Pollyanna
''Pollyanna'' is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter's soon writing a sequel, ''Pollyanna Grows Up'' (1915). Eleven more ''Pollyanna'' sequels, know ...
'' (1913)
Other uses
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The Whittier
The Whittier (also known as the Whittier Apartments) is a partially renovated high rise residential complex and former hotel located at 415 Burns Drive in Detroit, Michigan, on the Detroit River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
, a high rise residential complex and former hotel in Detroit, Michigan
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Whittier (Pacific Electric)
The Whittier Line was a Pacific Electric interurban line which traveled between Los Angeles and Whittier via Huntington Park, Rivera, and Los Nietos. Due to its indirect route, the line was eventually replaced by bus service on Whittier Bouleva ...
, a former train route in California
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Whittier Fire
The Whittier Fire was a wildfire in the Santa Ynez Mountains, south of Lake Cachuma, along Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County, California in the United States. The fire was reported on July 8, 2017, at 1:43 pm. Upon containment on July 28, the f ...
, a 2017 wildfire in Santa Barbara County, California
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Whittier Boulevard
Whittier Boulevard known as Stephenson Avenue (before 1920) is an arterial street that runs from the Los Angeles River (where it continues into Downtown Los Angeles as 6th Street) to Brea, California. The street is one of the main thoroughfares i ...
, a street in Los Angeles, California
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Whittier (horse)
Whittier was a notable Australian Thoroughbred race horse.
A son of Woorak (AUS) from the mare Polacca (AUS), he was foaled in 1919 and trained by Harry McCalman.
His owner, Ben Chaffey
Ben Chaffey (1876 – 3 March 1937) was a butcher ...
, an Australian Thoroughbred race horse
See also
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Mount Whittier (disambiguation) Mount Whittier may refer to a mountain in the United States:
*Mount Whittier (New Hampshire)
**Mount Whittier Ski Area, former ski resort
*Mount Whittier (Washington), near Mount St. Helens
See also
*Whittier Peak, in the North Cascades of Was ...
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Whittier House (disambiguation) Whittier House may refer to one of the following:
*John Greenleaf Whittier House in Amesbury, Massachusetts
*John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead
The John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead is the birthplace and home of American Quaker poet and abolition ...
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